Source Code: Ultimate Protocol

Fifteen years ago, the final battle of a global war claimed Guo Shangya’s father. Years later, a scientific experiment claimed his mother. Belonging to the "Old Generation," he suffers from a technological generational gap that prevents him from using memory inscription technology, placing him at a natural disadvantage in a fiercely competitive world. Guo Shangya once believed he had firmly hit rock bottom, only to discover an unfathomable abyss lurking beneath the floorboards. Within this darkness, the memory black market trades software packages designed to rewrite lives, and consciousness hackers trap their enemies' minds inside Klein bottles. Here, the Zhulong Envoys of Zhendan, the Paradox Sages of the Oceanic Federation, and the Inspectors of Eurasia slaughter one another for an uncertain future. From realizing he is not at the center of the universe, to recognizing that he is a product of evolution, to the agonizing comprehension that he cannot even control his own brain—and finally creating a being that denies the uniqueness of his own intelligence—humanity has barely crossed the threshold of the fourth great revolution before gazing into the abyss of the fifth. Ladies and gentlemen, this is your source code: it is crude, riddled with bugs, full of vulnerabilities, and constantly at risk of self-locking. But are you willing to rewrite it?